and has, I doubt not, good places for anchoring, but the weather being so bad, did not think it safe to stand into it.  From the Friars the land trenches away about N. by E. four leagues:  We had smooth water, and kept in shore, having regular soundings from twenty to fifteen fathoms water.  At half-past six we hauled round a high bluff point, the rocks whereof were like so many fluted pillars, and had ten fathoms water, fine sand, within half a mile of the shore.  At seven, being abreast of a fine bay, and having little wind, we came-to, with the small bower, in twenty-four fathoms, sandy bottom.  Just after we anchored, being a fine clear evening, had a good observation of the star Antares and the moon, which gave the longitude of 147 deg. 34’ E., being in the latitude of 43 deg. 20’ S. We first took this bay to be that which Tasman called Frederick Henry Bay; but afterwards found that his is laid down five leagues to the northward of this.

At day-break the next morning, I sent the master in shore to sound the bay, and to find out a watering-place; at eight he returned, having found a most excellent harbour, clear ground from side to side, from eighteen to five fathom water all over the bay, gradually decreasing as you go in shore.  We weighed and turned up into the bay; the wind being westerly, and very little of it, which baffled us much in getting in.  At seven o’clock in the evening, we anchored in seven fathoms water, with a small bower, and moored with the coasting anchor to the westward, the north point of the bay N.N.E. 1/2 E. (which we take to be Tasman’s Head), and the easternmost point (which we named Penguin Island, from a curious one we caught there) N.E. by E 3/4 E.; the watering-place W. 1/2 N.; about one mile from the shore on each side; Maria’s Island, which is about five or six leagues off, shut in with both points; so that you are quite land-locked in a most spacious harbour.

We lay here five days, which time was employed in wooding and watering (which is easily got), and over-hauling the rigging.  We found the country very pleasant; the soil a black, rich, though thin one; the sides of the hills covered with large trees, and very thick, growing to a great height before they branch off.  They are all of the evergreen kind, different from any I ever saw; the wood is very brittle, and easily split; there is a very little variety of sorts, having seen but two.  The leaves of one are long and narrow; and the seed (of which I got a few) is in the shape of a button, and has a very agreeable smell.  The leaves of the other are like the bay, and it has a seed like the white thorn, with an agreeable spicy taste and smell.  Out of the trees we cut down for fire-wood, there issued some gum, which the surgeon called gum-lac.  The trees are mostly burnt or scorched, near the ground, occasioned by the natives setting fire to the under-wood, in the most frequented places; and by these means they have rendered it easy